Chennai, Dec 4 (UNI) The launch of PSLV-C59/Proba-3 Mission was deferred by a day to tomorrow
after ananomaly was detected in the spacecraft, ISRO announced on Wednesday.
In a social media post, the launch would now take place at 1612 hrs on Thursday.
The launch was earlier scheduled for today at 1608 hrs.
ISRO said "Due to an anomaly detected in PROBA-3 spacecraft PSLV-C59/PROBA-3 launch rescheduled to tomorrow at 1612 hours.".
PSLV-C59 would be carrying two satellites of European Space Agency's (ESA) Proba-3 spacecraft.
The Proba-3's two satellites are the 340 kg Coronagraph Spacecraft (CSC) and 240 kg Occulter Spacecraft (OSC), which would be injected into a highly elliptical orbit.
This would be an exclusive commercial mission and Proba-3, the world's first precision formation flying mission, will study the solar corona, the Sun's outermost layer,
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